{"id":11216,"date":"2013-12-27T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11216"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:51:54","slug":"the-books-of-2013-genre-grab-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11216","title":{"rendered":"The Books of 2013: Genre Grab Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ll start the yearly wrap up with the genres that I read less frequently: Non-Fiction, Romance, YA, and Anthologies. (I read enough YA for it’s own category last year, but read more mysteries this year.)
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\nNon-Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

A History of the World in 6 Glasses<\/i><\/a> (2005) Tom Standage<\/a>\u00a0 (10\/10)<\/p>\n

This is a look at how six beverages: beer, wine, liquor, coffee, tea, and Coca Cola–changed the world. I found it both fascinating and enjoyable as things I knew but hadn’t really considered (living without access to clean water) were put into perspective.
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\nRomance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Midsummer Moon<\/i><\/a> (1987) Laura Kinsale<\/a>\u00a0 (8\/10)<\/p>\n

This book had a marvelous cover what first attracted me, and then the story was an amusing romp. There are elements of fantasy and steampunk, but they are only a minor part of the story. How can you resist a story where a hedgehog is a (non-speaking) recurring character?<\/p>\n

Twice Tempted: A Night Prince Novel<\/i><\/a> (2013) Jeaniene Frost<\/a>\u00a0 (8\/10)<\/p>\n

Theoretically, this is supernatural fantasy, but the romance is really the largest part of the story, so I decided it’s primary classification was romance. And although there are vampires, and there is a lot of boinking, it’s really quite good.
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\nYA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shadow Falls<\/p>\n

Whispers at Moonrise<\/i><\/a> (2012) C. C. Hunter<\/a>\u00a0 (8\/10)<\/p>\n

Chosen at Nightfall<\/i><\/a> (2013) C.C. Hunter<\/a>\u00a0 (8\/10)<\/p>\n

These two books are the conclusion to Kylie Galen’s story arc, and I thought she did a lovely job wrapping up Kylie’s discovery of who she is and how she fits into the world. The parallel series, focusing on Delia Tang, is, I believe, not YA, but the short stories and novella’s I’ve read have been quite good.
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\nAnthologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love anthologies. These properly should have been classified as fantasy, but there were already too many books for that post.<\/p>\n

Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations<\/i><\/a> (2013) edited by Paula Guran<\/a>\u00a0 (8\/10)<\/p>\n

The Mad Scientist\u2019s Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius<\/i><\/a> (2013) John Joseph Adams<\/a>\u00a0 (8\/10)<\/p>\n

Teeth: Vampire Tales<\/i><\/a> (2011) edited by Ellen Datlow<\/a> and Terri Windling<\/a>\u00a0 (8\/10)<\/p>\n

Happily Ever After<\/i><\/a> (2011) edited by \u00a0John Klima<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 (8\/10)<\/p>\n

All of these are fantasy compilations, and all are quite good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ll start the yearly wrap up with the genres that I read less frequently: Non-Fiction, Romance, YA, and Anthologies. (I read enough YA for it’s own category last year, but read more mysteries this year.)       Non-Fiction A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2005) Tom Standage\u00a0 (10\/10) This is a look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","category-years-favorites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2UU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}